Editing Bloomsbury (section)

===Origins and etymology===
The area appears to have been a part of the parish of [[Holborn]] when [[St Giles, London|St Giles]] hospital was established in the early 1100s.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Religious Houses: Hospitals {{!}} British History Online |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/middx/vol1/pp204-212#h3-0010 |access-date=2024-10-24 |website=www.british-history.ac.uk}}</ref>

The earliest record of the name, Bloomsbury, is as ''Blemondisberi'' in 1281. It is named after a member of the Blemund family who held the manor. There are older records relating to the family in London in 1201 and 1230. Their name, Blemund, derives from Blemont, a place in [[Vienne (department)|Vienne]], in western France.<ref>The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names, Eilart Ekwall, 4th Edition</ref> At the end of the 14th century, [[Edward III]] acquired Blemond's manor, and passed it on to the [[Carthusian]] monks of the [[London Charterhouse]]. The area remained rural at this time.

In the 16th century with the [[Dissolution of the Monasteries]], [[Henry VIII of England|Henry VIII]] took the land back into the possession of the Crown and granted it to [[Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton]].